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Below are recordings and slides of the breakout sessions in the Equity Track:
Journey to an Anti-Racism Organization
Presenter:
Andrea Turner, JD, MBA, CNMT, ACHE
Chief Operating Officer
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
Dr. Turner is the Chief Operating Officer at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Her professional experience spans 22 years, and includes legal and clinical work in the human rights space, as well as addressing health care disparities within vulnerable populations. As an attorney working in health care, Dr. Turner is passionate about implementing practices that will remove barriers instituted through the lens of structural racism to include defenders of racism.
Slides from the presentation are available here.
No Safety Without Equity: Eliminating Medical Errors in Diverse Populations
Presenter:
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Equity and Community Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Joseph Betancourt is the Senior Vice President, Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, and founder, senior advisor and faculty of the Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) at Mass General as well as a practicing Internal Medicine physician. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in health policy, health care disparities, diversity, and cross-cultural medicine.
Slides from the presentation are available here.
The Impact of Explicit and Implicit Bias on Patient Safety
Presenter:
Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH
Distinguished Scientist and CEO
Institute for Equity & Inclusion Sciences
Dr. Michelle van Ryn is Founder, CEO, and Distinguished Scientist of Diversity Science, a public benefit corporation whose mission is to translate the best current evidence into practical and effective approaches for achieving true equity, and deep diversity and full inclusion. Her work has improved the national awareness of how providers contribute to disparities in patient care and has led to greater understanding of how improved health care encounters positively impact patient outcomes.
Slides from the presentation are available here.